Dumb Question

[daddyflea]

This may sound dumb but I hear people talking about picking up signals 10 to 12 inches all the time. When I hunt especially in old places, I usually have to hold my coil about two inches over the ground to clear the grass. This makes it rare to dig anything deeper that 6 or 7 inches. I believe this is normal but if not enlighten me.

 

[Elton]

Your depth was normal for me. I never found 10 or 12" coins .... 6 to 7 was about the norm most places, and some even less.

 

[yowow#1]

I think 6-7 inches is the norm for finding targets, but depth using the V series detectors can depend on a lot of factors, filters and sweep/recovery delay, a slow sweep with a slow recovery delay can allow a bigger window for the machine to go deeper for deeper targets.

 

[daddyflea]

Your depth was normal for me. I never found 10 or 12" coins .... 6 to 7 was about the norm most places, and some even less.

That is what I was thinking nobody can swing just over the ground. Say 6" in the ground plus 2" for the grass = 8" which is pretty deep for any detector.

 

[Larry (IL)]

How deep your detector will go depends on your ground mineralization and many other factors. In low mineralized ground like a white sand beach, 12 inches is no problem but in very mineralized ground 6 is very deep. Most of us fall somewhere in between the two extremes. All Metal mode or Mixed Mode will also give you more depth than discrimination, even the size of the target is a factor...... LOTS of factors.